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Speaking at an annual conference near Sochi last week, Russian president Vladimir Putin once again railed at the U.S. for allegedly misusing its global hegemony of the past 25 years and shutting Russia out of creating the post-cold war world order, according to the Financial Times. There was also an implicit assumption in his speech: that as the...

Oil prices edged higher from one-month lows in early trading in Asia on Tuesday after OPEC agreed on a long-term strategy that was seen as an indication the cartel was reaching a consensus on managing production, according to Reuters. But the gains were limited as the market was weighed down by further indications of record output from the group,...

Vladimir Putin will launch a full-scale military assault on the Syrian city of Aleppo as early as this week, according to Western intelligence, The Australian reports citing The Times. The Russian President plans to exploit a political hiatus in Washington during the presidential election and its aftermath to ­secure a decisive victory in the...

The National Bank of Ukraine on Monday evening lowered the official hryvnia exchange rate by two kopiykas, bringing the national currency to UAH 25.51 to the dollar. The Central Bank set the following official exchange rates of the hryvnia against leading foreign currencies for November 1: $100 costs UAH 2,551.5438 (on October 31, it was UAH...

Ukrainian political expert Oleh Belokolos has shared with Ukraine Today his view on NATO`s response to the Russian aggressive policy and Kremlin`s role of a world security violator. The analyst believes the current tensions between the West and Russia and, though not on the same scale as they were in 1970-80s, as well as the overall security...

In a letter to FBI Director James B. Comey on Sunday night, outgoing Senate Minority Leader Harry M. Reid claims the agency is in possession of ”explosive information” on close ties between Trump campaign and the Russian government and that the FBI fails to inform the public on this critical matter, The Washington Post reported Monday. ”In my...

The Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Ukraine has summoned for consultations the country`s Ambassador to Moldova, Ivan Hnatyshyn, according to the Ukrainian president`s spox Svyatoslav Tsegolko. ”Important information. Ukrainian Ambassador to Moldova has been summoned to Kyiv for consultations,” Tsegolko tweeted Monday. He did not specify the reason...

President of Ukraine Petro Poroshenko says the Netherlands does not put to a halt the process of ratification of the Ukraine-EU Association Agreement and continues consultations, that`s according to the president`s posting on Facebook. ”The danger that seemed imminent yesterday is now eliminated. The final date of the consultations on the...

Combined Russian-separatist forces attacked Ukrainian army positions in eastern Ukraine 54 times in the past 24 hours, including 31 attacks in the Mariupol sector, 18 in the Donetsk sector, and five in the Luhansk sector, according to the press service of the Anti-Terrorist Operation (ATO) Headquarters. View map in full size In the Mariupol...

The Dutch government on Monday sought up to six more weeks to broker a deal at home that will prevent the Netherlands withdrawing support for a partnership agreement between the European Union and Ukraine, according to Reuters. In an April referendum, nearly two-thirds of Dutch voters said ”No” to the EU`s association treaty on closer political,...